Social / CSR in Singapore
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AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20
The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
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SINGAPORE, 2013/11/15
President Mugabe on Wednesday flew to Singapore, from presently on again sparking conflicting reports as to the purpose of his visit. On Thursday the Zim Eye online newspaper speculated that Mugabe was visiting the Asian country for 'medical checkups'.
In June Mugabe was in Singapore for what the national media said was a 'routine eye check'. In 2011 national media had said that Mugabe underwent cataract surgery in Singapore. He was to visit again in July 2012, sparking rumours that he was treated for cancer.
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SINGAPORE, 2012/12/17
Lawyers representing the four former SMRT bus drivers from China told the court on Wednesday that they needed extra time before their clients decide whether to contest charges against them.
The lawyers said they could not confirm if the four would be claiming trial. The four men were charged two weeks ago with instigating an illegal strike and are out on bail.
